Word: aid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baker stuck to traditional "I want to be president" rhetoric, but Bush spoke about the issue of American aid to the Cambodian people...
Possibly the uninspiring discussions on the merger put Marquand and his colleagues to sleep. Only one thing do Faculty members clearly recall about the debates--they were dull. Chase N. Peterson, then Harvard's director of the admissions and financial aid and now vice-president at the University of Utah, says no one was "exceptionally passionate." Back then the Faculty had more passion-inducing issues than the fund drive and the Core Curriculum to consider. When former Radcliffe President Mary I. Bunting formally opened the Faculty talks on the merger in April 1969, the student strike erupted two days later...
...real world, workers do not automatically find or qualify for these more lucrative positions. If they are to benefit from free trade, government must actively aid in shifting workers from declining industries into dynamic, growing ones. Giving out unemployment bonuses and pep talks to displaced shoe factory workers in Massachusetts will hardly prepare them for new jobs. Government policymakers should concentrate on increasing the supply of skilled labor through retaining programs. Moreover, it should provide direct incentives for growing industries to set up shop in those communities victimized by plant closings and lay-offs...
...There will be aid from our northern borders...
...University draws 29 per cent of its income from student tuition, 26 per cent from government funding of research and financial aid, 14 per cent from gifts, and 21 per cent from income on the endowment. The government isn't increasing much, and the endowment remains the same--so students find themselves making up the balance, Putnam says. "We hope the securities market will do well enough to carry its own share," he adds...